I love it. It is constructive, yet makes the point.

The trick, and the key, will be getting the business press to cover the
story and thus force HP management to respond.

John (I've already contributed) Burke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Appel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:05 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Wall Street or Charity?
>
>
> Yet another twist... it's late night here, so bear with me ;-)
>
> Imagine a large community of HPe3000 users and vendors gets together
> to collect a fairly large sum of money for placing a full page ad in
> Wall Street Journal to let high level HP management and the rest of
> the readership learn about true customer loyalty and a very valuable
> HP invention with 28 years of history...
>
> Now imagine those people decide to not spend $150,000 for a printed
> page of paper, but make up their minds and make that a donation for
> some charity, maybe asking the HPe3000 division manager to represent
> them for handing over the donation...
>
> Would Wall Street Journal consider a story about that?
> Or would they just be angry about losing a $150K deal?
>
> (The planned ad and the story behind could be placed at
> www.hp3000.org)
>